1959scudetto

Hi, Rich - here are some more pictures for you : OSI Alfa Romeo 1600 (Politoys 1/25): and then, I just have looked into ebay Italy - but those are rather expensive with shipping and customs/taxes, but I found also 2 sellers in the States: Look here (unfortunately cylinder head and wheel inserts left front and spare wheel are missing): https://www.ebay.it/itm/194141439882?hash=item2d33bb478a:g:XBUAAOSwZ4lgpXtz and the other - better - one: https://www.ebay.it/itm/164738660522?hash=item265b3078aa:g:WDsAAOSwfkNfLyYb it has even the often missing windshield wiper!

Thank you, Josh - then I'm not alone - this is what I answered in Feb. to another modeler about the issues with this kit: I spray-painted (rattle-can) body, hood, fenders and firewall at once, but glued them together almost 20 years later in final assembly: Here I first glued the firewall to the floor, a few weeks later after assembling the interior, I glued the front edge of the body to the firewall, pushing the body forward as far as possible (I was even afraid that the body would break) - then I pushed the front fenders as far back as I could and glued them with super-glue. If you don't push the fenders back as far as possible, you won't be able to place the hood correctly - a huge gap will remain (on a German modeling board a guy even wrote that he had to lengthen the hood with about 1,5 mm plastic sheet to close the gap in front of the windshield) and the brackets for the bumpers will not stick out enough so you may become troubles with mounting the bumpers (front and rear). The hood hinges were a pain in the a.. for me : they fell off several times when I tried to install the hood - so finally the hood is only lying on fenders and firewall and not fixed anyhow.

Thank you for the compliments, Greg !

Which one did you mean, Rich? This one?

No, the Miura isn't an SV (this one is wider at the rear and doesn't have the"eyebrows" around the headlights, which you can clearly see in the photo)

Fantastic, Charles - why don't you run a course in "Letting plastic look like rusty metal" ?

Thanks, Larry ! Thank you, Josh !

It could be due to the environmental restrictions that the cemical composition of those colors has been changed. Nowadays several things are forbitten that have been in everyday use back in the day. Just try it, Gareth - can be cool, if just for something different. I also weathered a IH Paystar logging truck, but this was heavily overdone. Thanks, Dan!

Nice model, Pat! I remember March and Williams doing some testing with their 6wheelers, but those were finally abandoned - Tyrrell was the only one racing; IIRC, Jody Scheckter managed its only win in Sweden 1976.

NIce Thunderbird, Dave - just enough customizing - which proves again: less is more ! (in some of my old amt kits are custom parts that are so ugly and would heavily deface the body lines of the original)

Thank you, Gerald!

Thank you, Rusty, glad you like them. Thank you, Bill - but my most of my builds are mediocre at best. But the one that you built (I've looked up all the photos)- excellent in this mint green - I couldn't come close to that! Thanks, Carl! Thanks, David!

Thanks, Gareth - it didn't come out as I wanted, but it was my first trial. Thank you Charles - the color are Humbrol enamels which I bought 40 years ago - as other modelers here on the board said, they have obviously have altered their recipe, and the paint is not so smooth anymore. i have not bought any of these in the last 20 years, so I have no actual experiences with them. Back then, you could brush glossy paints on evenly (directly on the plastic), and they covered the bodies almost without any streaks - for brushes I always bought cheap sets of hair brushes: 5 or 6 brushes in different sizes which cost between 6 and 9 $ a set) Thanks, Brian!

Very good looking rig - looks like it is parked ouside a small trucker's cafe down in the south west (sceneries from the movie "Duel" come to my mind...beware of rattlesnakes!)

Looks good, Rick - I can't wait to lay my hand on the new one!

You built an excellent rig, Gareth, from a not-so-easy-to-build kit !

Thanks, Carl! Thank you, Gary - interesting background from Fred Cady. Thank you, David.

Very pleasing color, Tom (detailing too...) - I also have this one in my stash.

Thanks, Carl! Thank you, David - this was one of the attractions for me in the '80s: two-tone paint jobs and white walls on the '50s cars...

Thank you, David!

About 1985 or 86 I built 2 Monogram '56 Thunderbirds: one was built stock out-of-the box, brush-painted with Humbrol light blue directly onto the red plastic. The other was robbed of its Continental kit (I needed this for a slightly customized '56 Ford), so I tried to make a '55 lookalike out of it (front bumper from a 3rd one was used at the rear, portholes of the hardtop were closed with sheet plastic and putty), steering wheel and some other details are wrong, but it got the look - inspiration for the white paint came from the movie "American Graffiti" - I know Susan Somers had a '56, but who cares? White paint is from rattle-cans, hardtops of both cars, too.

Well, I would say not bad for 50 yrs. old - golden oldies !

Thanks, Carl - expecially the Barchetta is a bit toylike looking, but I think these are workable...

Exactly - is this the Italeri re-issue of the old Protar kit?

Thank you Dave, this was a leftover part from a '56 T-Bird I just backdated to a '55 and therefore deleted the Continental kit.